(Anti-Imperialist Organizations and Individuals for Evo Morales and Bolivia)
We, allied anti-imperialist organizations and individuals across the world condemn the rightwing coup against indigenous president Evo Morales that forced him and other members of the Bolivian government to resign. This coup is being undertaken to inflict the worst kind of violence upon class-conscious, indigenous revolutionaries who, under the banner of indigenous socialism, have forged the path toward self-determination and peace.
To this day, no evidence exists to demonstrate that the October 20 elections which Evo Morales won were fraudulent. As early as one day later – on October 21 – the Organization of American States (OAS) released a public statement in an attempt to discredit the election results without any supporting evidence. For all its claims of multilateralism and diversity, the OAS receives a disproportionate amount of its funding from Washington DC.
This is not the first time that the United States Government engaged in a coup in Latin America. This is not the first time that the U.S. government fully supported a member of the local economic and political elite whose aim is to restore the ruling elite bloc’s policies which are hostile to the interests of the majority.
Evo Morales’ rival, former Bolivian President Carlos Mesa, an agent of the Washington D.C. based think-tank, the Inter-American Dialogue, and a political figure known for his hostility towards indigenous socialism and partiality to multinational big business has the qualifications of an ideal imperialist comprador.
The contributions of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) – under the leadership of Evo Morales – enjoys enormous support from the indigenous population and the working class of Bolivian society. Its contributions to the political and economic advancements of Bolivia through the painstaking economic and cultural empowerment of indigenous people and workers is well known and is inspiring, especially at this time of neoliberal attacks on the world’s working people.
We stand together in unity with Bolivian workers, peasants, and indigenous people in their struggle against U.S. intervention and economic imperialism. We strongly condemn the comprador elite in Bolivia who are agents of U.S. imperialism. We are prepared to reinforce all efforts to bring the perpetrators of violence to justice, may it be in the form of support for our Bolivian friends and comrades and/or an international people’s tribunal that will hold the culprits in this electoral destabilization and rightist coup fully accountable for their crimes against humanity.
El mundo con Evo, so are we!
U.S. hands off Bolivia!
Defend the right to self-determination! Defend the people’s right to live in peace!
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Initiating Organizations and Individuals
Anakbayan USA
BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) Philippines
BAYAN- USA
Black Workers for Justice
Candidatura d’Unitat Popular Pai?sos Catalans
Coordinadora Nacional Sindical y Social (CNUSS-Guatemala) Covert Action Magazine (USA)
Frente Populare (Italy)
Frente Popular Revolucionario (FPR Mexico)
Fundacio?n Amancio (Guatemala)
International League of Peoples’ Struggle-Australia (ILPS) ILPS Canada
ILPS Philippines
ILPS Commission 1 The cause of national liberation, democracy and social liberation against imperialism and all reactionILPS Commission 11 Struggle of teachers and other education workers against imperialism and for an alternative future
International Women’s Alliance
Inti Barrios: Costureras de Suen?os (Mexico)
Juventud Socialistas del Peru?
Journal of Labor and Society
May Day Committee (Melbourne Australia)
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)
New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO)
New York Boricua Resistance
New York Peace Council
October Revolution Centenary (New York City)
Philippines-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association
Potere al Popolo (Italy)
Proles of the Roundtable (USA)
Regional Council of Africans in the Americas
Union of Cypriots
Carol Araullo – Chair, BAYAN Philippines
Alessio Arena – Fronte Popolare,Italy
Christopher Connery, Professor, University of California Santa Cruz
Diego Gullotta, Professor of Sociology, PRC
Giuliano Granato- National Coordination,Potere al Popolo, Italy
Andrew Kahn, Voice of Ame?rica Blog
Liza Maza – Secretary-General, International League of Peoples’ StruggleMateo Bernabe? Lo?pez Pe?rez, Coordinadora nacional sindical y social, Guatemala
Florentino Lo?pez Martizne?z, Frente Popular Revolucionario Mexico
Immanuel Ness – author, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Gobal Working Class (2016)and Chair, New York Peace Council
Ben Norton, journalist, USA Paloma Polo – filmmaker, Spain
Sarah Raymundo – Chair, Philippines-Boliviarian Venezuela Friendship Association
Renato Reyes Jr., Secretary-General BAYAN-Philippines
Akinyele Umoja,author,We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (2013)
Samuel Villatoro, Fundacio?n Amancio,Guatemala
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